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The iPad Pros, though?

I'm very curious how much iPad Pros sell. Out of all the products in Apple's lineup, the iPad Pro confuses me the most. You can tell what a PM inside Apple thinks the iPad Pro is for, based on the presentation: super powerful M4 chip! Use Final Cut Pro, or Garageband, or other desktop apps on the go! Etc etc.

But in reality, who actually buys them, instead of an iPad Air? Maybe some people with too much money who want the latest gadgets? Ever since they debuted, the general consensus from tech reviewers on the iPad Pro has been "It's an amazing device, but no reason to buy it if you can buy a MacBook or an iPad Air"

Apple really wants this "Pro" concept to exist for iPad Pro, like someone who uses it as their daily work surface. And maybe some people exist like that (artists? architects?) but most of the time when I see an iPad in a "pro" environment (like a pilot using it for nav, or a nurse using it for notes) they're using an old 2018 "regular" iPad.
Of course, I'm not buying this one or any other until something breaks. After all, my current A12Z is way too powerful for iPadOS. It just pains me to see amazing feats of hardware engineering like these iPads with M4 be completely squandered by a software stack which doesn't facilitate more demanding tasks than decoding video.

Millions of people will be buying these things regardless of what I'm doing.
> If a startup found limitations then its a skill issue.

"If it didn't work, you must have done it wrong" is maybe the most toxic sentiment in tech and in life. The Agile Coach's mindset.
Just two 4090s? If you don't have at least 8 4090s do not even call yourself a hobbyist.
> Why buy a nice suburban home and invest in your future

Lots of recently-built suburbia is a money pit [1].

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/4/1/heres-the-real-...
Unishox2: Compression for Unicode Short Strings
Andreessen Optimists, Pinker Utilitarians, Growth Mindset
I'm not surprised at all, unless you're old enough to remember it when it happened. (I am.) We do a poor job of teaching American history. My high school American history class didn't spend a lot of time on the Vietnam war -- basically we were told it was an unpopular war and there were protests. For example, I don't remember any mention of the My Lai massacre or the Tet Offensive. I did not take a general American history class in college; but, I doubt it would have covered Vietnam for more than a day or two.
> Military theorists have long described the defense as the strongest form of war, and current doctrine agrees.

Indeed - one of the first wars fought with modern rifling, the American Civil War, had General Lee learn this lesson in a very hard way on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, in a failed infantry assault known as "Pickett's Charge."[0]

Lee mistakenly attacked a position that was very easily defensible by Union artillery on faulty theory that it would be weakened due to a (failed) artillery barrage that happened previously. The Union correctly predicted Lee would attack there, and he sent over 12,000 men in a futile assault that resulted in 50% casualties in less than 1 hour, one of the bloodiest hours of the entire war.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickett%27s_Charge
> and if you don't own one, you're not financially smart for some reason. At least this is according to the hivemind at /r/personalfinance.

The government will give you a bunch of free money to leverage an investment in real estate. This isn't true of other investments.
Personally I think it’s better to do some good for the environment than no good for the environment. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. They should absolutely let us repair every device, but I’m glad they make the environmental efforts they currently do as well.
From the pre-GUI era, one favorite would be Ken Thompson's text editor "ed". It's built with a print output in mind and it doesn't show you the text itself by default. You'd have to target a line range and specify an action such as replacement or even to print it out to screen or paper; using the now famous g/re/p pattern. The minimalism is really cool. ed is still around as a vital part of the vim text editor to this day actually.
> IME Apple has always been the most honest when it makes performance claims

Yes and no. They'll always be honest with the claim, but the scenario for the claimed improvement will always be chosen to make the claim as large as possible, sometimes with laughable results.

Typically something like "watch videos for 3x longer <small>when viewing 4k h265 video</small>" (which means they adapted the previous gen's silicon which could only handle h264).
The rare metals in your battery will be recovered at a rate of 95% and used in a new battery that will probably store more energy with the same amount of metals. Batteries seem pretty sustainable.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply! That does change my viewpoint a bit!
> This is why they pay so high.

Ah, ah, ah. This is why they pay so high so far.
I drink only cold brew normally, and I've noticed this as well. It's 50/50 whether you will get actually cold brew at any given coffee shop or just iced hot-brew coffee, which tastes different and has much less caffeine.

Cold brew needs a new name or it will likely fade away over time.
Race car drivers think they are pros and can't even rebuild the engine in their car.

There are different categories of "power users"
I had a 13” iPad Pro for work and I loved it. It’s basically the size of a standard piece of paper, so reading and writing is very natural.

That being said, I’m getting an iPad Air now that they offer 13”.
They aren't living in them, and the way zoning and development rights work in NYC, it means that fewer high rises can be built for normal housing.
> seems like just as easily none of that could have existed.

There is infinite stuff which does not exist.
Ok. I will cheerfully agree to disagree while also conceding that your point is arguable.
People always complain dev should write more efficient software, so maybe that’s one way!

At least, chrome wouldn’t run that many tabs on iPad for sure if it used the same engine as desktop chrome
I think you might be conflating two issues. Housing in downtown isn't desirable for a populace of people (probably true for those who need more space and/or want to think about issues like schooling etc.) and downtown isn't being used (even for office use).

The idea to turn office towers into apartments tries to address the second issue without explicitly trying to solve the first (which is make downtown more desirable to live in).
Where are the giant floppy disks?
SRAM has really stalled. I don’t think 5nm was much better than 7nm. On ever smaller nodes, sram will be taking up a larger and larger percent of the entire chip. But the cost is much higher on the smaller nodes even if the performance is not better.

I can see why AMD started putting the SRAM on top.
What does that have to do with someone typing 'http://example.com' with the intention that that is not turned into a link?
Sneaking science into Borderlands: Inside the game inside a game
A friend bought it & I had a chance to see it in action.

It is nice for some very specific use cases. (They're in the publishing/typesetting business. It's… idk, really depends on your usage patterns.)

Other than that, yeah, the technology just isn't there yet.
A GPU does other things. It’s designed to do something else. That’s why we call it a GPU.

It just happens to be it’s good at neural stuff too.

There’s another difference too. Apple’s NPU is integrated in their chip. Intel and AMD are going the same. A 4090 is not integrated into a CPU.

I’m somewhat guessing. Apple said NPU is the industry term, honestly I’d never heard it before today. I don’t know if the official definition draws a distinction that would exclude GPUs or not.

I simply think the way Apple presented things seemed reasonable. When they made that claim the fact that they might be comparing against a 4090 never entered my mind. If they had said it was the fastest way to run neural networks I would have questioned it, no doubt. But that wasn’t the wording they used.
Well, the cost estimate for ARC was $29/W(e,net) for the capital cost of the reactor, or about 2x the cost of Vogtle-3/4 (for entire power plants).
They use natural gas to charge up their batteries. [1] This is a different use case than California.

1: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/texas-wi...
Agreed, this will be the way forward in the future. I've already seen one of my apps (Authy) say "We're no longer building a macOS version, just install the iPad app on your mac".

That's great, but you need an M series chip in your mac for that to work so backwords compatibility only goes back a few years at this point, which is fine for corporate upgrade cycles but might be a bit short for consumers at this time. But it will be fine in the future.
Author here - this is my primary goal, exposing the complexity developer might not even think about. Can't even count number of instances seemingly inconspicuous changes caused incident.

"Works on my DB" is new "works on my machine" (and don't trademark it, please :)))
I'm curious why Zed chose Blade over wgpu/wgpu-hal.

There's a bit of detail here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7015

But I'd be curious to read a longer writeup on the tradeoffs and how they came to their decision.
The whole Marti youtube channel is a marvel for engineering geeks like me. If you have the occasion, you should take a look (talks about tunneling, big machines, etc)
Regarding point 2 I think that many in the British tech scene haven't reflected enough on the fact the ARM people didn't walk away as some of the richest people in the country. They made a lot, yes, but nothing like a comparable team would have done in the US.

This means that the happy feedback loop SV enjoys of success breeding more success is cut short, and inherited wealth is favoured to a greater extreme.

The UK is simply not a country that rewards people that do anything serious. The Liz Truss remark approximating "why do all the kids want to be pop stars or football players?" was dangerously close to the point: that's the only real chance they have, and they know it.
> means changing the national fire code

Skyscraper windows aren’t usable for egress. This is a solved problem.
I'll take a look at it, but after years of basically trying every productivity hack and book on the planet with no success, I've decided to mostly limit myself to productivity tools written by and for people with ADHD. Is there a specific reason you think this version is more effective with ADHD?

A small habit isn't easier for me, because the difficulty of the task isn't the obstacle: I simply don't seem to have the part of the brain other people have, where they can choose what they are going to be doing.

It feels sort of like people are trying to tell me I could just walk through a doorway if I exercised a tiny bit to get in good enough shape to just walk a few feet like they do... but actually I have a brick wall where everyone else has a doorway, and I'm already 10 times stronger than they are from trying to push against a solid brick wall for years, but still can't walk through a brick wall.
> in the age of Captain Underpants

Captain Underpants is at least 20 years old now. Becoming a piece of classic American fiction in it's own right.
Sure, but this is less possible if your downtown is already full of commercial real estate in towers already. Yes, you could argue further zoning changes on the remaining plots could be turned into towers, but it doesn't provide a guarantee the office space will get filled.
It doesn't sound perfectly pleasant but are you suggesting the noise it too loud or what? Construction work has never been comfortable, and frankly I'm wondering if the shade of the bridge outweights the chaos of having an active roadway above head.
I love it when people blame the government for shit private equity is doing.
Oh... take home tasks.

Theoretically, I agree these are a great way of generating some signal where there's not enough to be found by other methods. But, in practice, what I've found is that most of these types of exercises are way overscoped, and even those which are not put a hugely disproportionate time burden on the candidate with minimal return for most of them. In other words, nobody wants to take the time to properly review these things.

I've had much better experiences when people give me code and ask me to review it rather than when they give me a "spec" and ask me to write code based on it. One big red flag for the latter type of assignment is the phrase "production ready," as that can mean so many different things it's a borderline meaningless criterion.

I could really go on and on about this, but I'm going to stop here.
The US has extreme amounts of undocumented immigration that nobody really cares much about.
Does the US road construction process follow the same meticulous precision?
> It also looks supremely unfair to have proctors for this exam with varying expectations and training to actually correctly administer it.

Those are your top two problems? When was the last time you saw an exam where the proctor was expected to hold a conversation with the examinees?
Not what's commonly understood as TUI, but I love Acme from plan9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M

The entire UI is composed of text. You can place arbitrary commands anywhere on the screen. Interaction with other programs is natural and seamless. You're also not confined to the ANSI-terminal model. Perhaps most shockingly, Acme uses the mouse a lot.

I find that there's a lot of confusion between text-based, CLI, and ANSI sequences. That's unfortunate.
All I remember is tanks in the commercials.

We need more tanks in commercials.
I don't know; I had an ipad air 2 (until now the thinnest ipad ever) and now use a 2020 ipad air and never had those issues -- I even carry my coffee using the ipad as a tray.

The ipad 2 would lie flat on the table. I don't understand the fetish for a camera bump. It makes the phones suck too. You need a case of some sort to make them lie flat. They could just make the batteries bigger and keep the whole thing flat.
Belgium's Aikido lands $17M Series A for a security platform aimed at developers
all of this malicious code still requires the user to grant the permissions, or exploit bugs in the operating system. same as ios, infinitely better than mac, windows and linux.

apple might pretend they are secure because they usually manage to catch such things during review. this doesn't actually mean they are secure.

end of the day, it's up to the user to choose what software they install, and what permissions they grant.

if your security model includes taking all user choice away, forbidding them from running software that they wish to run, and essentially treating them like unsophisticated toddlers that need your guidance because you know best, then sure, you might view this as a problem. but at that point, you are the problem.
Here's my iced coffee prep for those who like it strong with a bite:

Prepare a "lungo" via espresso by brewing through twice (or more) as much water through a single espresso puck. Don't do this over ice. Put the cup in the freezer. Depends on the cup (I use ceramic) but should be close to room temperature or slightly cold after about 30 minutes. Now pour over ice.

Can also do this over night for larger brews in the fridge (non freezer).

This is as close as I could get to a Starbucks iced coffee that isn't watered down and still has bite.
High up in an NYC building, there is no escape regardless of windows. Also, my quality of life with good sleep is so high, its easily worth it
TL;DW:
Rabbit website opens a virtual machine remote connection, hides chrome tab bar and window bar, wants you to enter your Discord login details when you want to connect to midjourney.
App to Creative Writing
It's perhaps a bit morbid/crass to ask, but as they've both since passed (rest in peace), I wonder how in fact the death of the conjoined twin resulted/impacted the other twin biologically and how long one was able to live with the other passed?
This PDF[1] suggests that an LPCAMM2 module has a 128 bit wide memory interface, so the epic memory bandwidth of the M3 max won’t be achievable with one of these memory modules. High end devices could potentially have two or more of them arranged around the CPU though?

[1] https://investors.micron.com/node/47186/pdf
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This town has the best school districts in my state, close proximity to interstates since I work in the core of our metro area, and (somewhat) affordable housing prices as it's not the "wealthy" community. Plus I've locked my rent in at pre-pandemic levels and moving away would cause my rent expenses to almost double due to the surging rent prices everywhere else.

It's a terrible local government, but right now I'm not in a position to move anywhere else without ending up driving 3hrs a day to go to work and paying way more than I can afford.
And Stiglitz fears some countries may be careening towards "a 21st century version of fascism." But contrary to the classic argument made by Hayek, Stiglitz says, this rise in authoritarianism "comes not in the countries where the government is doing too much, but where the government is doing too little to protect individuals against unemployment, the stresses of adaptation to globalization, to technical change, to the stresses of migration."

Too much vs not enough? That's the wrong lens.

It's who / what these governments are doing X or Y for. Apparently, Stiglitz doesn't understand the difference between Capitalism and free markets and Crony Capitalism and the gov putting its thumb on the scale to heavily influence winners (Corporations) and losers (citizens / voters). The foundation of Crony Capitalism is a top-heavy government that can be manipulated by the few in favor of the few. When that goes on long enough, eventually there's pushback. But sure, let's blame The People for the system that has intentionally failed them?

Stiglitz and his ilk need to get out more. All that time in academia is warping their understanding of reality.
Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum. It's a true classic.

Weizenbaum wrote the first AI chat program, Eliza, sixty years ago. I read
his book shortly after it came out in 1976, and several times since, most recently last year after ChatGPT etc. arrived. I was impressed again how pertinent and prescient it is.

A fifty year old book about AI is still relevant because it is mostly about
peoples' motivations for building and using AI, their expectations for it, and their responses to it. These haven't changed in fifty years and don't depend on the technology in the AI, or what it can actually do.

Weizenbaum recognizes that making and using computer technology has moral and ethical consequences and isn't afraid to say so. He argues that computers should not be used for some purposes, whether or not they can be made to work.
If you live in Santa Clara your rate will be around $0.166 per kWh.

I think a lot of folks there have solar. And by 2026 they say they will have 50% of electricity sourced via sustainable means.
And this free money, much like government guarantees for student loans, has only exacerbated the situation between the haves and the have nots.
What’s the opposite of carbon neutral? That is to say, how much more damage could Apple be doing to the environment if they ended all of their current “Green talk” practices? They’re a business and they’re going to sell things no matter what, would you rather have them do nothing to mitigate the environmental damage, or have them do something?
Yep! That's how we did it, with the heavy lifting done by the delightfully named "Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device" crate: https://crates.io/crates/ashpd
The 2008 crisis would like a word...
In my experience, it appears sometimes. Opening the Personal Hotspot settings pane on the iPhone may make it appear on the Mac. Maybe not.
If it takes 2% more materials to make the components upgradeable, but only 1% of users will do it over the device's lifetime, then that's a net loss for the environment.

I don't like it either and I'm not sure I agree, but that's probably their logic.
Similar experience here, like: What about when your editor is set to auto save when unfocusing a tab or window and saves while you were mid-edit on your dotfiles and now every new shell is crashing? etc etc
> But it feels fundamentally wrong that detached, single-family (zoning restricted) homes are allowed to be purchased by investment firms & exclusively used as rentals.

I know what you're saying, and I agree, but playing devil's advocate here, you could imagine a society where there are no owner occupied dwellings at all, everyone rents. In theory, it would actually be a great equaliser because anyone could invest in the property owning corporations for a return of that income, and you wouldn't have some people becoming stupidly rich for no reason other than sitting in a house that happens to increase massively in price.

(I am of course speaking of an imaginary world where tenants rights were at the top and they couldn't just be removed from a home at the whim of the landlord).